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DKE
2002
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Spoken query processing for interactive information retrieval
It has long been recognised that interactivity improves the effectiveness of Information Retrieval systems. Speech is the most natural and interactive medium of communication and ...
Fabio Crestani
IPM
2007
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QCS: A system for querying, clustering and summarizing documents
Information retrieval systems consist of many complicated components. Research and development of such systems is often hampered by the difficulty in evaluating how each particula...
Daniel M. Dunlavy, Dianne P. O'Leary, John M. Conr...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
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Crowdsourcing for relevance evaluation
Relevance evaluation is an essential part of the development and maintenance of information retrieval systems. Yet traditional evaluation approaches have several limitations; in p...
Omar Alonso, Daniel E. Rose, Benjamin Stewart
CORR
2008
Springer
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Comparing and Combining Methods for Automatic Query Expansion
Abstract. Query expansion is a well known method to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. In this work we have tested different approaches to extract the candid...
José R. Pérez-Agüera, Lourdes A...
AAAI
1994
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Using Induction to Refine Information Retrieval Strategies
Conceptual information retrieval systems use structured document indices, domain knowledge and a set of heuristic retrieval strategies to match user queries with a set of indices ...
Catherine Baudin, Barney Pell, Smadar Kedar
ACL
1997
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Homonymy and Polysemy in Information Retrieval
This paper discusses research on distinguishing word meanings in the context of information retrieval systems. We conducted experiments with three sources of evidence for making t...
Robert Krovetz
ANLP
2000
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Answer Extraction
Information retrieval systems have typically concentrated on retrieving a set of documents which are relevant to a user's query. This paper describes a system that attempts t...
Steven P. Abney, Michael Collins, Amit Singhal
PDPTA
2003
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Misuse Detection for Information Retrieval Systems: A Preliminary Approach
We present a novel approach to detect misuse within an information retrieval system by gathering and maintaining knowledge of the behavior of the user rather than anticipating att...
Rebecca Cathey, Ling Ma, Nazli Goharian, David A. ...
RIAO
2004
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Combining Positive and Negative Query Feedback in Passage Retrieval
Information Retrieval Systems aim at retrieving relevant documents according to the information needs which users express. Most Information Retrieval Systems focus on passage retr...
Taoufiq Dkaki, Josiane Mothe
ECIR
2003
Springer
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Experiments with Document Archive Size Detection
The size of a document archive is a very important parameter for resource selection in distributed information retrieval systems. In this paper, we present a method for automatical...
Shengli Wu, Forbes Gibb, Fabio Crestani